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Traits Lesson 3
How could a lizard's toes help it survive?
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| adaptation | a physical trait or behavior that helps a living thing survive in its environment |
| artifical selection | the process of humans choosing certain traits of living things so that they are passed to the offspring |
| environment | all the living and nonliving things in a particular place |
| evidence | information that can be used to support or reject an idea |
| generation | all the living things born and living at around the same time |
| graph | an image that helps you understand the number or amount of something |
| inherit | to get a trait from parents |
| natural selection | a process where certain traits help a living thing survive, so those traits are more likely to be passed to the next generation of offspring |
| species | one specific kind of living thing that has similar traits and can produce offspring with one another |
| variation | differences in a trait between living things of the same kind, such as the number of scales on a lizard’s toe |
| trait | something you can observe about a living thing, such as a lizard’s toe scales |
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